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Welcome to Kindergarten Cafe - your home for teaching ideas, activities, and strategies across all content areas! I am Zeba McGibbon and I love creating resources for teachers and sharing my teaching experience with others. Kindergarten Cafe is aimed for kindergarten, but teachers of Preschool-First grade can find resources here for their students! I love to connect with other teachers so please reach out and say hello!

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Stress-Free End-of-the-Year Tips ~ Ep. 32

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Holidays

Earth Day Magic in Kindergarten ~ Ep. 30

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Math

Loving Teaching While Using New Curriculum ~ Ep. 29

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PODCAST

The Chick Life Cycle Unit is Pure Kindergarten Magic

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Early Childhood Education

Child-Led Play and Learning with Melysa from PRE-K Spot Talks ~ Ep. 27

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Anxiety in Children

Social Emotional Learning and SupportsZeba McGibbon

As we go back to school, we should expect that many students will have some anxieties. We all are! Students will be worried about getting sick or someone in their family getting sick. These worries may appear in different ways for different students. It...

Social Emotional Learning for Kindergarten: Expected and Unexpected Choices

Social Emotional Learning and SupportsZeba McGibbon

A lot of social emotional learning for kindergarten is learning what are the expected choices for school and what are some unexpected choices. Students learn this throughout the whole year from your modeling and explicit teaching of routines. They also learn this through consequences...

Behavior Plans: Tips, Tricks, and Tools!

Social Emotional Learning and SupportsZeba McGibbon

Behavior management is probably the hardest thing for teachers to learn and it is rarely taught in pre-service programs. Or, even if it is taught, it usually does not prepare you for each future child’s individual behavior. I have a blog post all on...

Social-Emotional Kindergarten Challenges

Social Emotional Learning and SupportsZeba McGibbon

I love teaching social-emotional skills to my students – it’s probably the content I am most passionate about. I have divided up the year into 11 different social emotional kindergarten themes, about one focus per month. They can be done in any order, but...

Social Emotional Read Alouds

Social Emotional Learning and SupportsZeba McGibbon

Social-emotional learning is such an important part of our jobs as classroom teachers and can easily be pushed aside with all of the other curricular demands. One of the best ways to teach social emotional skills is to use mentor texts. Whether these are...

Cooperation: Teaching Social Emotional Skills

Social Emotional Learning and SupportsZeba McGibbon

Teaching Social Emotional Skills Teaching social emotional skills is really important for all students, but especially early childhood students. You can't just explicitly teach the social emotional skills and call it a day – no! You have to give students...